A handsome, affordable introduction to the modernist polymath who charted the rhythms of color across textiles, illustration, painting and more.
Sonia Delaunay was a true pioneer of modernist abstraction; breaking with the figurative vocabulary that subordinated color to subject matter, she placed dynamic color interaction at the core of her vision, whether expressed through painting, book illustration or costume and textile design. Drawing inspiration from both traditional Russian crafts and the modern frenetic metropolis, Delaunay's work reflects the drastic changes ushered in by industrialization. Through her polyvalent practice, Delaunay helped construct the new modern woman that she herself embodied: equal parts avant-gardist, creative entrepreneur and businesswoman.
This richly illustrated catalog showcases the range of Delaunay's work as it unfolded over 60 years, from abstract paintings and works on paper to textile design, garments, fashion photography, books and carpets--even a brightly colored sports car.
Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) migrated to Paris in 1906 and became a key figure in the city's avant-garde scene. During these early years, her paintings underwent a formal shift influenced by the vivid colors of Fauvism. She soon met her husband, fellow artist Robert Delaunay, and the couple pioneered a fusion of Cubism and Neo-Impressionism that they termed Simultanism, which denotes abstract painting that uses color in a manner comparable to the use of sound and rhythm in music. In 1964, Delaunay became the first living woman artist to have a retrospective at the Louvre.
Mito, filosofia, misticismo e poesia. Sono solo alcune delle tappe che compongono lo sfaccettato percorso artistico del tedesco Anselm Kiefer, celebrato nel volume Anselm Kiefer. Angeli caduti, edito da Marsilio Arte in occasione dell'omonima mostra ospitata a Palazzo Strozzi dal 22 marzo al 21 luglio 2024. L'esposizione, curata dal direttore generale della Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Arturo Galansino, è stata realizzata e ideata insieme al grande maestro tedesco. Il percorso permette al visitatore di ammirare sia lavori storici, come il collage di xilografie Hortus Philosophorum (Il giardino dei filosofi, 1997-2011), sia nuove produzioni inedite, come Engelssturz (Caduta dell'angelo, 2022-2023), opera creata appositamente per il cortile del palazzo fiorentino. Angeli caduti indica «l'intera umanità, e i suoi drammi anche (e soprattutto) contemporanei», come suggerisce Giuseppe Morbidelli, presidente della Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. La mostra mira a restituire la vitale complessità dell'arte di Kiefer, celebrandone l'intreccio tra figura e astrazione, natura e artificialità, creazione e distruzione. L'esordio sulla scena artistica tedesca di Kiefer si colloca alla fine degli anni Sessanta, con opere che hanno segnato tra le prime una riflessione sulla storia della Seconda Guerra Mondiale e sull'eredità emotiva e culturale della Germania. Da qui è iniziato un percorso artistico in cui si uniscono forme, allegorie e figure che riflettono su identità, poesia, vicende storiche e correnti filosofiche. Il catalogo della mostra Anselm Kiefer. Angeli caduti, edito da Marsilio Arte è frutto della stretta collaborazione tra il maestro stesso, il suo Studio, il grafico Peter Willberg, la casa editrice e Palazzo Strozzi. Il volume, curato da Galansino con la storica dell'arte Ludovica Sebregondi, si apre con la Conversazione tra Kiefer e Galansino registrata il 16 ottobre 2023 a Croissy, nello studio dell'artista. Il testo è accompagnato dalle immagini di un servizio fotografico realizzato in quell'occasione e da un raro scatto di Kiefer a Palazzo Strozzi intorno al 1969-1970, durante una gita universitaria. Segue il contributo del teologo, sociologo e filosofo Klaus Dermutz, dedicato a Creazione e caduta, con una riflessione sul tema degli «angeli caduti» nelle opere della mostra, alla luce delle implicazioni filosofiche, letterarie, con particolare attenzione alla cultura tedesca. Arturo Galansino dedica il suo saggio ad Anselm Kiefer a Palazzo Strozzi, percorrendo le sale della mostra, affrontando le tematiche ricorrenti nel suo lavoro e le complesse stratificazioni di significati. L'artista come critico è il contributo del testo di Maurizio Ferraris, professore di Filosofia all'università di Torino, dove Kiefer ha ricevuto la laurea honoris causa nel 2014. Segue un ricco portfolio con la riproduzione in grande formato delle opere in mostra. Chiudono il catalogo la corposa Biografia di Ludovica Sebregondi, arricchita da rare fotografie fornite dallo Studio, e una selezione delle principali mostre personali. Con la sua arte, Kiefer riflette sui temi della memoria, del mito, della guerra e dell'esistenza attraverso l'uso di pittura, scultura, fotografia e installazione. Ogni produzione artistica esprime il rifiuto del limite, nella monumentalità e nella potenza della materialità, ma soprattutto nell'infinita ricchezza di risorse con le quali sonda le profondità della memoria e del passato.
Ce catalogue accompagne l'exposition rétrospective attendue depuis longtemps sur l'oeuvre influente de Philip Guston à la National Gallery de Washington. Elle retrace toute la carrière de cet artiste hors norme et mal connu en Europe, au parcours inattendu, naviguant de la figuration à l'abstraction, du réalisme social à l'expressionnisme abstrait en passant par le dessin satirique.
How Picasso forged an expansive, experimental and personal approach to a traditional genre.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was committed to depicting landscapes throughout his entire life. From his earliest days in art school until the year before his death, landscape remained the prime genre through which he mediated his perception of the world and which shaped his own creative evolution. Yet within Picasso's vast oeuvre, landscapes have received the least scholarly attention. Landscape would serve as a catalyst for his formal experimentation, including early Cubism; as a field in which to investigate urban modernity; as an interface between humanity and nature; as a ground for direct sculptural intervention; as a space of personal withdrawal; as an inviting terrain for elegiac scenes; and as a territory of resistance and flight.
Landscapes offer the clearest lens for understanding Picasso's attentiveness to his cultural milieu as well as to his ongoing engagement with art-historical traditions. Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds celebrates the depth of his exploration of landscape subjects along with his expansive approach to this traditional genre.
Using the painter's queer identity as a framework to understand his visceral approach to figuration
Francis Bacon is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, best known for his distinctive way of portraying human figures. Especially in his male portraits and nudes, the physicality of the body--skin, flesh, muscles--is translated by the artist into thick, oily textures, giving the figures almost abstract shapes. Flashes of teeth, torsos and rib cages underscore Bacon's visceral philosophy regarding the human form. As the artist famously said: "We are meat, we are potential carcasses. If I go into a butcher's shop I always think it is surprising that I wasn't there instead of the animal."
Beyond their carnal overtones, these paintings unite a wide variety of influences, revisiting canonical themes and combining references to the great masters of painting with Bacon's own perceptions of the male body. Both his biography and oeuvre were permeated by the presence of his lovers, with whom he established intense and turbulent relationships. Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat accompanies the 2024 exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, exploring the queer aspects of the artist's work and highlighting how Bacon, with his innovative and impactful painting, paved the way for queer presence in visual culture.
Born in Ireland, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-92) worked in furniture design and interior decoration until 1945, when his career as a painter took off. He enjoyed colossal success in his lifetime, especially as part of a London cohort that included such contemporaries as Lucian Freud and John Deakin.
Otherness and exploitation in the fraught oeuvre of Post-Impressionism's canonical painter.
This book accompanies the first exhibition to investigate Paul Gauguin's (1848-1903) relationship with the question of alterity and the exoticizing of otherness in his paintings. Adopting an engagingly critical tone, Paul Gauguin: The Other and I deals with central questions within the celebrated Post-Impressionist's oeuvre, focusing on both his self-portraits and his works produced in Tahiti.
Alongside reproductions of relevant works, the book also features essays that examine the tensions between Gauguin's biography and the image that the artist assiduously created of himself, as well as the way in which his oeuvre reinforced an imaginary about otherness, addressing crucial and current issues such as the notion of primitivism, the "exotic" and the "tropics," and cultural appropriation, as well as matters related to the erotization of the female body, sexuality and androgyny.
The first in-depth survey of Whitney's endless experimentation with color.
The esteemed American painter Stanley Whitney has, for 50 years, created joyful, immersive abstractions characterized by a bold, experimental palette and unique rhythm. Over the last 20 years, he has structured his paintings as loose grids: a consistent framework that frees him to work through seemingly infinite painterly variations and allows viewers to focus not on each painting's subject, but rather on our own response to colo
An in-depth look at Whistler's city streets and storefronts, addressing the phenomena of urbanization and gentrification, past and present.
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) created hundreds of works that depicted urban contexts undergoing rapid transformation. This handsome volume sheds new light on his picturesque representations of London's shifting urban landscape during the Victorian era. Despite Whistler's aversion to overtly political themes, his artworks reveal a long-term engagement with social change. Properties for the newly rich replaced historic buildings and shops, forcing many into squalid conditions. The images featured here, primarily drawn from the permanent collections of the Colby College Museum of Art and the National Museum of Asian Art, bear witness to the uncertainties of modern metropolitan life that Whistler saw firsthand. However, his streetscapes also reflect the modern practice of «artwashing,» wherein the negative consequences of gentrification are hidden by aesthetic screens. This book asks the reader to consider the intention and function of these engaging images: to memorialize the new struggles of the urban poor or to romanticize poverty for a rising middle-class art market.
Luc Tuymans: La Pelle documents the most ambitious monographic exhibition of the work of Luc Tuymans (born 1958). The Pinault Collection at Palazzo Grassi has in the past mounted exhibitions of the work of Sigmar Polke, Damien Hirst and Urs Fischer in its elegant interiors along the Grand Canal in Venice. It was thus the appropriate venue for this survey of Luc Tuymans' work. Quiet, restrained and at times unsettling, his works engage with questions of history and its representation and with everyday subject matter in an unfamiliar and eerie light. Painted from preexisting imagery, they often appear slightly out-of-focus and sparsely colored, like third-degree abstractions from reality. Whereas earlier works were based on magazine pictures, drawings, television footage and Polaroids, recent source images include material accessed online and the artist's own iPhone photos, printed out and sometimes rephotographed several times.
A beautiful appraisal of the Renaissance sculptor's achievements, contextualized with works by his contemporaries.
The first thorough overview of the artist in many years, Donatello: The Renaissance reconstructs the outstanding career of one of the greatest sculptors in Western art. Famed for his incredibly sensual sculpture of David--the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity--Donatello (c. 1386-1466) also made reliefs, but was best known for statues in the round.
Accompanying a truly historic exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, and featuring a wealth of color plates of the artist's key works, this volume also contextualizes Donatello's innovations by juxtaposing them with masterpieces by other Renaissance masters such as Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael and Michelangelo. These revelatory, expert juxtapositions help define Donatello's style: for example, comparison of his Madonna col Bambino relief with Giovanni di Pietro da Pisa's Madonna col Bambino shows how Donatello eschewed decorative gestures (such as putti, garlands and vases) in favor of a more vital simplification of form.
Justice and rebirth: a visual chronicle of the artist who fused Afro-Cuban visual culture with European modernism.
This chronological survey traces the Cuban painter and sculptor Wifredo Lam's (1902-82) career from the late 1930s to the '70s, spotlighting the radically syncretic visual language he developed in response to modernism's Eurocentricity. Born to a Chinese father and Congolese Iberian mother, Lam placed heritage centrally in his work. Early in his career, he associated with major figures such as Picasso, Matisse and Braque, and he was struck by their integration of African iconography. Although he greatly respected these European artists, the dissonance between their aesthetic choices and cultural experience was not lost on him--especially given the racism and exploitation that characterized Cuban society under the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Lam spent the rest of his career endeavoring to decolonize modernist art. From his early Surrealist works to his later preference for geometric abstraction, African sculpture and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora consistently informed his practice.
Published for an exhibition at Pace, The Imagination at Work includes paintings, works on paper and rarely seen bronze sculptures, as well as a biography of Lam's life and career by the Latin American art scholar and curator Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, who made curatorial contributions to the gallery's exhibition. Essays by scholars Alexander Alberro, Kaira Cabañas, Samantha A. Noël and Alexandra Chang also feature.
This volume is published for the largest exhibition to date on Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming (born 1960), who is known for his history paintings and monumental gestural portraits of intimate subjects as well as public figures such as Mao, Putin and the Pope.
An artist's book of "social science fiction" presenting new work and writing by Richard Prince.
Richard Prince (born 1949) continues his revival of the Fulton Ryder imprint with an artist's book that is both a monograph of new artworks and an expansive written statement on art history, personal biography and the contemporary impulse to create self-images. At first glance, the New Paintings are in a similar vein as Prince's New Portraits. However, unlike that series, the New Paintings focuses on portraits of painters painting on Instagram, very often with back to the camera, facing away from the viewer. The resulting images are ambiguously manipulated; the series is self-described as an act of "social science fiction." The image captions, integral to the artwork, contain a dense "Bird Talk" text, including ambiguous autobiography and art history commentary.
Joan Katz offers some explanation in a comment found in a New Painting, stating: "Deep Nostalgia. Legitimate Doubts. Safeguards to prevent misuse. Digital imitation. Resemblance without manipulations. Skilled impersonations. Staged illusions. Imitation of Life (the sequel). It's difficult to know if it's new or just another resurrection. #post_place."
Ce volume richement illustré accompagne une exposition à Toronto puis Washington. Il réexamine la célèbre période bleue de Pablo Picasso (1901-04) en peintures, oeuvres sur papier et sculpture. S'appuyant sur de nouvelles informations glanées à partir d'études techniques réalisées sur Le Tub (1901), La Miséreuse accroupie (1902) et La Soupe (1903), ce volume multidisciplinaire allie histoire de l'art et avancée scientifique de la conservation afin de montrer comment le jeune Picasso a façonné un style distinct et une identité artistique prononcée en adaptant les leçons artistiques du Paris de la fin de siècle au climat social et politique d'une Barcelone en difficulté économique.
A spectacular survey of Kelly's seven-decade exploration of abstraction.
Accompanying the large-scale traveling exhibition Ellsworth Kelly at 100, this volume celebrates the groundbreaking career of the beloved American abstractionist. This publication highlights key aspects of his multifaceted art?from his lifelong drawing practice through his later explorations of layered canvas panels. Kelly frequently revisited shapes and motifs observed throughout his career, exploring form, color, line and space through painting, sculpture, collage, drawing and photography. The fully illustrated publication highlights works from major public and private collections alongside key works from Glenstone's collection, including seminal early pieces such as Painting for a White Wall (1952) and Painting in Three Panels (1956), as well as examples from the iconic Chatham and Spectrum series. Also featured is Yellow Curve (1990), a monumental floor painting installation that spans nearly 1,000 square feet, on view for the first time in more than 30 years since it was conceived for an exhibition at Portikus am Main in Frankfurt. Essays by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Alex Da Corte, Suzanne Hudson, Corey Keller and others explore and expand upon Kelly's canon. With three gatefolds and a tip-on cover image, the book also includes unpublished archival materials from the artist's studio and the Glenstone archives.
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was born in Newburgh, New York. His first exhibition was held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1956; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized his first retrospective in 1973. Subsequent exhibitions have been held at museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tate in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
A visual feast of flowers, abstractions, cityscapes and landscapes from American modernism's most iconic painter Offering a complete survey of Georgia O'Keeffe's illustrious career, this magnificent new book ranges from the works produced between 1910 and 1920 that made her a pioneer of abstraction to her celebrated flower paintings and views of New York, which led to her recognition as one of the key figures in modern American art, and culminating with her paintings of New Mexico.
The selection of color plates is accompanied by quotes from O'Keeffe on her art and additional photographic material pertaining to the paintings. The sense of reverence for the world and its forms emerges vividly through O'Keeffe's words. "The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big far beyond my understanding--to understand maybe by trying to put it into form," she writes. "To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill." Also featured are a biography and texts by contributing curators from the venues to which the show travels, by scholars at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe and by acclaimed French art writer Catherine Millet.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) began her art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York. She moved to New York in 1918, and in 1924 married Alfred Stieglitz. From 1929, O'Keeffe began spending part of the year in the Southwest, which served as inspiration for her paintings of New Mexico landscapes. After Stieglitz's death, she lived permanently in New Mexico, in Abiquiú, later moving to Santa Fe.
Contributeurs: Anna Hiddleston-Galloni, Dale Kronkright, Andres Sanchez Ledesma, Marta Palao, Susana Perez, Ubaldo Sedano.
The first major monograph on the visionary nature paintings of the pioneering American modernist.
Though Joseph Stella is primarily recognized for his dynamic Futurist-inspired paintings of New York, particularly of the Brooklyn Bridge, he was also compelled to express the powerful connection he felt to the natural world, a subject he pursued persistently throughout his career. Visionary Nature presents an overdue examination of this prolific and wide-ranging body of nature-based work.
If Stella's cityscapes became symbols of a modern era, his pictures of flowers, plants, birds and trees were rooted in another, more ancient, primal and paradisaical world. Inspired by archaic and classical precedents as well as his own brand of spirituality, these lyrical and exuberant works are also his least understood. By focusing on his unique visual vocabulary and the context in which it developed, Visionary Nature reconsiders how his nature paintings relate to his career, revealing a surprising continuity between seemingly disparate subjects and exploring how these works are reflective of Stella's passionate spirituality. His close affiliation with the natural world shaped a body of work that ranged from vividly realistic to poetically transcendent and visionary in its unique expression.
Joseph Stella (1877-1946) was born in Italy and moved to New York City in 1896. He belonged to avant-garde circles on both sides of the Atlantic and achieved international notoriety in the 1910s for his large-scale paintings of modern America. For the remainder of his career, he traveled widely and produced a large body of nature-themed work. He died in 1946 from heart failure.
Presenting Kehinde Wiley's hotly anticipated response to a legendary Gainsborough portrait.
This volume presents A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, a new portrait by Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), commissioned to mark the centennial of the acquisition of Blue Boy by Henry and Arabella Huntington. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens places Wiley's painting in conversation with Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century masterpiece. A deep connection exists between the museum's most famous painting and the artist who is known for creating one of the most beloved presidential portraits of our time. A native of Los Angeles, Wiley has often spoken about his childhood visits to the Huntington's British portrait gallery and how they inspired him to become an artist.
Richly illustrated with portraits by Wiley and by 18th-century masters such as Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Hudson, this book offers insight into the evolving history of portraiture and the representation of power. An essay by Malik Gaines, Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, investigates Wiley's postmodern strategy of inserting Black subjects into canonical European settings. An essay by fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell situates Wiley's work within the traditions and trappings of 18th-century grand manner portraiture.
Key Hirst works situated in the exquisite landscape and architecture of St Moritz.
Held in 2021 in St Moritz, Mental Escapology was Damien Hirst's (born 1965) first major exhibition in Switzerland. It featured over 40 works from some of his best-known series--including the Spot Paintings, Natural History and Mental Escapology--presented across multiple outdoor and indoor sites. Highlights included the 12-foot bronze sculpture The Monk (2014) positioned in the center of the frozen Lake St Moritz. Elsewhere, another piece from Hirst's Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable series, Two Figures with a Drum (2013), was installed on the southwestern edge of the lake, while his 21-foot sculpture Temple (2008) towered over the lake's north bank. Some of Hirst's most recognizable works were displayed in an 18th-century building and in the Protestant church in the town's center. Designed by the exhibition's curator, Jason Beard, this publication provides an overview of the show, presenting the works alongside a selection of quotes by Hirst.
Dialoghi inattesi, esperienze visive inedite e nuovi percorsi di senso sono le parole chiave che descrivono Affinità elettive, la suggestiva mostra allestita dal 24 marzo al 23 giugno 2024 alle Gallerie dell'Accademia e alla Casa dei Tre Oci, nuova sede del Berggruen Institute Europe, a cura di Giulio Manieri Elia e Michele Tavola, direttore e curatore delle Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, e Gabriel Montua e Veronika Rudorfer, direttore e curatrice del Museum Berggruen di Berlino. Accompagnata da un catalogo riccamente illustrato edito da Marsilio Arte, Affinità elettive porta una selezione di opere provenienti del Museum Berggruen - uno dei più importanti istituti statali europei di arte moderna - a dialogare con i capolavori delle Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, instaurando una serie di stimolanti connessioni e corrispondenze tra dipinti, disegni e sculture. Fin dal titolo, ispirato al famoso romanzo di Johann Wolfgang Goethe, la mostra si propone di evocare e sottolineare il potenziale che scaturisce dall'incontro di queste due importanti collezioni, accostando per contrasto o similitudine l'arte moderna di Picasso, Matisse, Klee e Giacometti a quella degli antichi maestri Giorgione, Sebastiano Ricci, Pietro Longhi, Giambattista Tiepolo e Canova. Apre il volume Affinità elettive. Una conversazione, un dialogo in cui i quattro curatori - Giulio Manieri Elia e Michele Tavola per le Gallerie dell'Accademia, Gabriel Montua e Veronika Rudorfer per il Museum Berggruen - si confrontano e spiegano i punti di partenza concettuali, l'evoluzione e l'approccio storico del progetto. Segue la sezione Opere in mostra, in cui vengono presentate le opere esposte nelle due sedi veneziane - le Gallerie dell'Accademia e la Casa dei Tre Oci in Giudecca. Chiude il catalogo il contributo Heinz Berggruen, la sua collezione e il Museum Berggruen di Berlino firmato dal curatore Montua e da Camilla Brunazzo Chiavegato, un excursus sulla nascita e sullo sviluppo della vasta collezione del mercante d'arte tedesco Heinz Berggruen (1914-2007) in cui viene approfondito in particolar modo il suo rapporto con gli artisti Picasso, Matisse, Klee e Giacometti. L'obiettivo del progetto è quello di instaurare una conversazione tra l'arte veneziana e quella novecentesca, mettendo a confronto due collezioni uniche. Sarà quindi possibile ammirare il Ritratto di Dora Maar realizzato da Picasso esposto accanto alla Vecchia di Giorgione; due studi di Picasso per Les Demoiselles d'Avignon giustapposti a una serie di bozzetti di Giambattista Tiepolo; e ancora, le sculture di Giacometti accostate a quelle di Canova. «L'incontro tra due collezioni molto diverse tra loro - quella della più grande pittura Veneta delle Gallerie e quella di opere moderniste di Heinz Berggruen - darà vita a stimolanti spazi di dialogo» sottolinea Klaus Biesenbach, direttore della Neue Nationalgalerie di Berlino.
Prince explores American celebrity and desire through the lens of Times Square.
This new artist's book by Richard Prince (born 1949) revisits a seldom seen body of work made during his "Time Life" years spent around the theaters, grind houses, bars and restaurants of New York's 42nd Street and Times Square. In an introductory essay titled "The Counterfeit Memory," first published in 1981, the artist describes wandering into the Orleans Theater, writing that "I'm not sure who I am when I'm there or if, in fact, I'm comfortable and want to be there at all. One's identity it seems is easily changed when what's in front of you is reversed and transparent, directed and produced." In artworks that include some of his earliest portraits, Prince captures the ephemeral, photographic celebrity of publicity headshots, gossip columns, nightclub advertisements and pornographic films, alongside finely rendered drawings such as "Montgomery Clift as Sigmund Freud" and "George Reeves as Himself." In The Entertainers' concluding essay, "The Lone Ranger," the artist states, "I think I'll go after third place ... leave first for the hero."
Over the course of his brief career, Matthew Wong was celebrated for his paintings evoking diverse historical references ranging from Chinese scroll painting to Van Gogh and Vuillard. His colorful, dappled vignettes of imaginary landscapes and half-remembered interiors have the uncanny ability to, in his words, activate nostalgia, both personal and collective.This first museum publication features more than 60 of Wong's deeply evocative blue paintings, of intimate interior scenes and luscious nocturnal landscapes, from his Blue Series made between 2017 and 2019.Wong's Blue Series paintings are notable for their saturated and richly varied blue palette and pervasive sense of melancholy, enhanced by solitary figures. The striking compositions reflect Wong's technique of flattening the depth of space between the foreground and background with deft combinations of wet and dry brushwork. From monumental oils on canvas to smaller gouache and watercolor paintings, this body of work reveals Wong's intimate and intense meditations on blue that is, as essayist Nancy Spector writes, as much a mood as it is a color.With an introduction by Julian Cox, essays by Spector and Winnie Wong, and a chronology, this publication brings together scholarly voices to provide fresh insight and perspective on Wong's work and his short-lived but exceptionally brilliant career.Matthew Wong (1984-2019) was a self-taught Canadian artist, who held his first US solo exhibition at Karma in March 2018, garnering reviews in the New York Times and the New Yorker, among others. His work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Présentant notamment de nombreuses peintures et gravures inédites, cet ouvrage constitue la première monographie générale et complète consacrée à l'artiste brésilienne. Entre abstraction et figuration, entre sculpture, gravure, collages, textiles, reliure et peinture, on y retrouve toutes les grandes lignes qui animent sont travail.
